Medusa Soap & Concrete Reliquary

The soap was ritually created at the time of lunation in 27° Taurus, 2021, where the serpent headed Kundalini Goddess resides. Taurus is a sign of strength and will power. Its focus is primarily on earthy and material matters, manifesting through concrete forms in the world. This taking place during the longest Lunar eclipse in 600 years. The eclipse season is a powerful vortex of energy that heralds changes and opens new possibilities. With Pluto at 24 degrees of Capricorn forming a trine to the Moon, and a sextile to the Sun, carrying fortunate to have access to the Plutonian energy which should never be taken lightly but with a great deal of care and responsibility. Alignment of self with others who may be in a position of power and who can help to achieve one’s goals. Indeed, this particular position comes with the ultimate Lunar blessings, as this is the Moon exaltation degree within Kritika Nakshatra, ruled by the fire god Agni. This strong female power lunation allows us all be masters of beauty- learning to sculpt the raw material of our being into something magnificent. Even Source energy can be misused and with the demon star on this full moon doing so, will come with some serious consequences.

“Medusa, in her association with the serpent and with the menstrual blood that could both heal and destroy, embodies the dark moon mysteries of the Goddess. In her red-faced Gorgon mask surmounted by a crown of snakes, Medusa in women signifies a source of feminine wisdom that is connected to their sexuality. She points to the source of women’s powers of divination, creation, destruction, and regeneration.” – Demetra George, The Healing Power of the Dark Goddess

SOAP + RELIQUARY + KUNDALINI UPRISER = DARK MOON

HOW TO USE: The soap can be used for ritual divination appointed towards the Gorgona Deity or in your individual bath rituals. Simply use it with water as a normal soap, while washing, consider the spiritual power of the ancient Libyan Serpent Goddess of wisdom. Allowing the bath ritual to potentiate magical work and recover the magic of our dark sexuality.

BEST FOR: Initiating rituals for development of your talents and your inner resources that will give a new sense of our value and self-worth. The soap creates a purifying bubbly lather with sensual aroma. To activate Gorgona’s blessings in our lives as our increasing confidence in our ability to be creative and assertive in all our life endeavours. We will remember how to use her ancient wisdom in recognizing truth, healing and regenerating ourselves and others. The soap is suited for face and body cleansing. We recommend keeping your soap dry between uses, best stored on the soap dish, as this will increase the life of your beautiful bar.

MEASURMENTS: Each bar weights about 52gr / 1.85oz. With size about 6 x 2 cm. The soap together with soap dish weights about 194gr / 6,85oz.
Individually wrapped in tissue paper, each Medusa Soap & Dish combo is placed in biodegradable box. This auspicious Lunar Goddess soap is a special gift for your sacred ritual space.

INGREDIENTS:
• Glycerine
• Silver Citrate
• Sodium Laurate
• Sodium Laurethh Sulfate
• Sodium Myristate
• Sorbitol
• Propylene Glycol
• Sodium Chloride
• Sodium Thiosulfate
• Sodium Stearate
• Etidronic Acid
• Titanium dioxide
• Edta
• Aqua
• Bio Spirulina powder (Arthrospira platensis)
• Violette flowers (Viola guestphalica)
• Pure Frankincense Essential Oil (Boswellia sacra, B. serrata)
• Pure Cedarwood Essential Oil (Cedrus atlantica)
• Wild Cherry Perfume

KEY INGREDIENTS:

♦ Frankincense: Both B. sacra and B. serrata have been used in cosmetics since the earliest times. A black powder, kohl, was made of charred frankincense and used by the Egyptian women to paint their eyelids. B. sacra has also been used by the Egyptians in rejuvenating face masks. Frankincense has been melted to make hair removal creams, and used as a paste to perfume the hands, clothes, hair and rooms.

♦ Violet’s spring blossoms are some of the first flowers to arrive after the solitude of Winter has left us. Their medicine is one of nourishment, softening and strengthening. Violets arrive in time to soften the hardness that can emerge in the decline of Winter. Violets are often referenced as being helpful in times of transition, whether that be seasonal or life transitions. Historically Violets were worn at funerals, they assist in comforting and strengthening the heart in times of despair. Violets truly celebrate the arrival of spring in a joyful and supportive fashion with their intoxicating aroma and wonderful addition to our medicine cabinets and food.

♦ Spirulina is one of the oldest microorganisms in the world and first appeared on the surface of the Earth about 3.5 billion years ago. The consumption of spirulina dates back to the Aztecs around the 16th century. Most of commercial cosmetics claim a large range of Spirulina properties, both for hair and for skin.

E N E R G E T I C S

Taurus 27°

A man sculpturing hedges into animal forms.
Making a great deal of something out of almost nothing is the mark of fantasy or uninhibited imagination. You prefer to be presented with basic, simple, and ordinary things. Inside your soul you turn these into what they originally were, releasing their primal power. When alchemy runs this close to the bone, it is astounding what it can do. Tackling longstanding knots and obstacles of every kind is sensed as nourishment and opportunity. A sacrificial incarnation can best frame itself in fantasy and imagination and thereby hug the edge between worlds perfectly. The path here is to stay under while peeking over the top, and to play it as straight as can be, while coming from an irrepressible source that can come through this peculiar form with flying colors.

Kritika Nakshatra

Kritika encompasses late Aries and early Taurus, ruled by the Sun, and Mars and Venus respectively. The Hindu deity that rules Kritika is Agni, the God of Fire who acts as the mediator between Heaven and Earth. He represents the sacred fire, used in rituals, meditation, and purification ceremonies which are particularly beneficial under the influence of this Moon Mansion. The other deity of this Nakshatra is Kartikeya, son of Shiva, whose foster mothers were the Krittikas known to us as the Pleiades, the most mythical asterism of our skies.

Pleiades, Origins of the Star-seeds

Pleiades, known to all of the cultures under various forms, but with the common myth representing women – like in the Nebra sky disc. Pleiades are situated within one degree of Taurus: between 4°23′ (Electra) to 4°53′ (Alcyone the brightest star of the constellation). In Tropical system they are between 29 degree of Taurus and 0 degree of Gemini. I use 2 degree orb within my interpretations of the stars therefore, the Pleiades are within the orb of the eclipse (3°04′ of Taurus Sidereal).

The Moon cycles

Folklore and traditional practices thus indicate that the cycle of the moon influences the trajectory of certain aspects of daily life, particularly involving plants and other living resources. They do not, however, demonstrate how these forces might be acting on biological organisms, and specifically how they impact the phytochemical profile of plants. The Maya believed that the moon controlled sap flow in plants and that the nighttime draws the healing attributes of the plant into the roots. Medicinal plants were therefore harvested only at specific times of the day or month. The First Nation’s tribes of Tla`amin (Sliammon), Klahoose, and Homalco lived by the 13 moons of their ancestors, a calendar that controlled all aspects of their lives, including the harvest of plants for food and medicine, as well as cultural and social activities. (Arvigo R, Balick M. Rainforest Remedies: One Hundred Healing Herbs of Belize. Twin Lakes, WI. Lotus Press; 1993. Simonsen BO, Peacock S, Haggerty J, Secter J, Duerden F. Report of the First Nations cultural heritage impact assessment and consultation: Bamberton Town Development Project. British Colombia, Canada: The Environmental Assessment Office; 1997.)

The Dark Goddess

In the cycle of precessional world ages, humanity now stands at the cusp between the closure of the Piscean Age and the dawning of the Aquarian Age. The cuspal periods spanning world ages can last for around five hundred years, and they are times of great transformation. We are currently in the dark moon phase of the Age of Pisces; and according to some astrological historians, this time period is not only the closure of the 2,300-year Piscean Age, but also of an entire 26,000-year polar precessional cycle. If this is so, then we are in a most powerful dark moon phase in the history of humanity. The essential mystery teachings of the Goddess concern death and rebirth. The Goddess has been reborn during a transformational dark moon phase period of the precessional age cycle in which massive death is pervading the earth. Every- where the old is dying in order to give birth to the new.

Society is currently witnessing a global women’s movement and an ecological movement, which many people are referring to as the “Return of the Goddess.” Since the beginnings of the Women’s Liberation Movement and the rebirth of women’s spirituality in the early 1970s, individuals are reawakening to the beauty, wisdom, and strength of the feminine. We are now discovering and remembering her myths, symbols, and rituals.

Serpent-Haired Medusa

I saw you once, Medusa; we were alone.
I looked you straight in the cold eye, cold.
I was not punished, was not turned to stone.
How to believe the legends I am told?…
I turned your face around! It is my face.
That frozen rage is what I must explore—
Oh secret, self-enclosed and ravaged place!
That is the gift I thank Medusa for.
– May Sarton, “The Muse as Medusa”

Serpent-haired Medusa was once a queen of the awesome powers of the dark moon. She ruled over the regenerative mysteries of sex and death, and protected these magical rites from being discovered and abused by the uninitiated. As the third, crone/destroyer aspect of the lunar triad, Medusa’s message was one of wisdom, and it concerned the inevitability of death. The West is the gateway to death, and Medusa’s oceanic cavern situated at the far western edge of the world lies at the entrance to the underworld. The patriarchy, in their fear of the wise woman, of death, and of the magical sexual power of the menstruating feminine, demonized Medusa (as they did the other dark goddesses) into a monstrous figure of the devouring, castrating mother.

The Gorgon Medusa, like other of the dark goddesses, became greatly feared by the patriarchy when humanity forgot the cyclical nature of death-becoming-life. Commentaries about Medusa as written by modern male psychoanalytic theorists emphasize her demonic and destructive qualities. Wolfgang Lederer, in The Fear of Women, states that “nothing but terror emanates from Medusa’s head.” The terror of Medusa that turns men into stone is their terror of death and castration. Erich Neumann writes that the winged Gorgon’s “…are uroboric symbols of the primordial power of the Archetypal Feminine, images of the great pre-Hellenic mother goddess in her devouring aspect as earth, night, and underworld.” Sigmund Freud’s interpretation, “Medusa’s Head” (1922), suggests that Medusa’s head, surmounted by snakes, is the symbol of the maternal genitalia—the hairy
maternal vulva as seen by the son. He says that to decapitate is synonymous with to castrate.

Our next task is to recall Medusa from her banishment and once again reclaim the serpent-haired queen by honoring the dark moon wisdom that arises from our sexuality. Medusa is the source of our deep, regenerative healing power. The menstrual blood of the Serpent Goddess that could heal, kill, and even raise the dead is reflected in the twin serpents of Life and Death twining about the winged staff that is today the emblem of the medical profession. Her blood was given by Athena to the God of Healing, Asklepius, whose daughter Hygeia, Goddess of Health, was in classical times the guardian of the sacred serpents in the healing temples.” – Demetra George, Mysteries of the Dark Moon, The Healing Power of the Dark Goddess

Churning of the ocean of milk

The churning of the ocean of milk, is the story of how the Nodes and eclipses were formed. It is an important event in Hindu philosophy, and the most common form of the story is from the Mahābhārata – perfectly describing the symbolism of the Nodes and Eclipses.

Mohini and Vasuki, or the story of a woman and the snake

Hindu Gods, Devas, wanted to generate soma, an elixir of immortality also known as amrit. They asked Vasuki, the serpent king of Nagas, for help. He became the churning rope wrapped around the mountain. Devas pulled back and forth on the snake’s body, causing the mountain to rotate, which in turn churned the ocean.

Ocean Birth of the Goddess of Wealth and Good Fortune

All kinds of herbs were cast into the ocean and subsequently, fourteen treasures known as Ratnas were produced in the process, amongst them the Sun, Moon, Lakshmi – the Goddess of Wealth, Beauty and Good Fortune, as well as her older sister Goddess Jyestha of Misfortune, other supernatural animals and treasures, as well as the elixir of immortality – soma.

Vishnu as his female avatar Mohini took charge of distributing the freshly made soma to the Gods. However, one of the demons Rahu disguised himself as a god and sat with the Devas to drink some of the elixir.

Stimulate. Protect. Tranquility.

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